Title:
Japanese Owned Grocery Store, Oakland
Creator/Contributor:
Dorothea Lange
Date:
March 30, 1942
Identifier:
LNG42015.1
Format:
photonegative
Agfa Safety Film
photography
Notes:
March 30, 1942 8th - Franklin St Oakland Japanese - owned Grocery Store. It has been closed. Owner voluntarily evacuated at
the last moment before the "Freezing order" to Fresno where he has relatives. He is U C graduate, born in California. I asked
him "who put up that sign?" He said "a sign painter but I paid for it, the day after Pearl Harbor" See also companion negative,
made Aug '42 5 months later -
Subject:
World War II; store; grocery; Japanese American; sign; car; sidewalk; mail box; curb; street; 8th Street, Oakland; Franklin
Street, Oakland; Chinatown neighborhood